On 5/5/12 9:45 AM, Lea Verou wrote:
> 1. It has been mentioned in this thread that it’s against company policy
> of several implementors.
Indeed. I think said company policies are actively harmful... Not like
the working group can do anything about it per se, other than exerting
public opinion pressure.
> 2. It defies the entire advantage that prefixes were supposed to bring:
> Getting author input for in-development features. When the feature is
> present only in a preview (or in a stable build, but behind a switch),
> the volume of author feedback declines tremendously.
Yes, indeed. Does it decline by enough to offset the benefits? I'd be
interested in numbers; my totally non-scientific impression from the
"looking at the bug database" side is that Mozilla gets a large fraction
of our useful feedback for spec purposes (not compat purposes, mind you)
from our nightly and aurora builds as things stand. Of course I could
just be missing a significant feedback channel.
> I believe Alex Russell has specific statistics of how big a decline we’re talking
> about, but I recall it’s > 90%.
I would be very interested in seeing those numbers and the specific
context for them.
> This would result in specs being
> developed almost blindly, detached from the reality of author needs. Do
> we want that?
No, not at all.
-Boris